Adjective : a persevering student.    From Dictionary.com. 

So perseveringly as she did babble about this one thing!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

The efforts perseveringly prosecuted since the commencement of my.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

He talked on perseveringly with the others, glancing stealthily at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

So that, even in very bad cases, this should be perseveringly tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

If they don't break the heart at first they perseveringly "try again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

Moral suasion, perseveringly applied, predominates over Solomon's system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

Her brother Alfred, two years older, has perseveringly stuck to his reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

He looked as leonine as ever, and kept winking perseveringly to the Hawickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Still, he was more active, more perseveringly energetic, more effective than ever before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Above all, they should set themselves earnestly, prayerfully and perseveringly to diffuse the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference

This policy was thoroughly and perseveringly tried, and proved utterly unprofitable and ruinous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

London dinner-tables, as perseveringly, if not as much against odds, as you fought it in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

I trotted on most perseveringly towards the point of the horizon where I felt certain the house must lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

The dogged struggle against the blind forces of Nature was waged tenaciously and perseveringly for centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

Hence, if we perseveringly choose the latter, and make a miserable failure of life, we should blame only ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The retreat, however, destroyed more of the enemy than the battle; so perseveringly did the horse pursue them when routed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

He got rid of his grass, certainly; but this was no gain to me, whose hooks perseveringly caught the fragments floating by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

One woman pleaded (a frequent plea) in arrest of judgment that she was with child; the rest perseveringly denying their guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

The remedy should be continued perseveringly, whilst cutting down the supplies of fat, starchy foods, sugar, and malt liquors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

As a child he was grave and thoughtful, and at the age of thirteen he studied history so perseveringly as to impair his health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

It is peace that we have uniformly and perseveringly cultivated, and harmony between us and France may be restored at her option.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

It would be difficult to follow closely the train of reasoning which led Hiram to insist so perseveringly in favor of Mr. Jessup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

By carefully and perseveringly pursuing this course, he at length succeeded in raising the bow of the boat about a foot in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

The abolitionists, with the most singular unanimity, perseveringly assert that Southern slavery degrades its subjects "into brutes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

Gazing down from the great height which had been so perseveringly gained, all hearts warmed with a glow of triumph and of anticipation.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Those who struggle so courageously and perseveringly for an education do not need to be pitied, but they need to be aided and encouraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894] Reference

Next the Senator, who mounted slowly and perseveringly, as though he had a solemn duty to perform, and was determined to do it thoroughly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

He would be on the alert to see where his prey was to be found, and he would hunt for it perseveringly if it happened to fall out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference

Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly twelve to fifteen times in every minute -- thus imitating the natural motions of breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

These MSS. were perseveringly obtruded upon various publishers for the space of a year and a half; usually, their fate was an ignominious and abrupt dismissal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

At the other end of society there are large masses who cannot be considered inaccessible to any missionary influence, affectionately and perseveringly applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference